[caractacus]

So you work (at least) double hours, a bunch of employees quit, "extreme stress", everyone "giving 110%", and you get nothing but a dinner out of it and the salary you'd have got if you'd worked a normal role. Uber's stock, meanwhile, got as big as Travis's ego...

What a fucked up world where this is deemed reasonable. You're even able to justify it as "hey it was tough and ridiculous and half the people didn't make it but look, I wrote some books and was able to become a manager."

[alasdair_]

There is always gamedev, where after a year of 80 hour weeks, the game is launched and… half the people get fired because they are no longer needed.

[stale2002]

> world where this is deemed reasonable

I mean... the world where uber engineers are getting paid 300k a year, is probably that world where people might think that this is reasonable, given the compensation at companies like uber.